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No. 412,339. Patented Oct. 8, 1889 M Hahn HM 1 i l Linn-i" WITNESSES: l/VVE/VTGH ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT EFrcE.

LYMAN D. JONES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MILK-JAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,339, dated October 8, 1889.

1 Application filed April 17, 1889 Serial No. 307.544. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LYMAN D. J ONES,a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Milk-Jars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to portable glass milkjars which are employed by milklnen for serving families and others with milk; and my improvements relate to the form of the top of the jar, its cover, and the mode of sealing the jar,wherehyl provide a cheap and convenient method of closing and opening the same. I

.will here state that one leading object to vbe attained in such jars is to have the sealing device perfectly flat on top to admit of the jars being placed one above another. I attain all these results by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section giving a side view of the hinge and catch of the sealin g device seen on the line a; a; of Fig. 3; Fig. 2, an elevation (seen from the back) to illustrate more particularly the hinge of the cover; Fig. 3, a plan view which further illustrates the hinge and catch of the cover; Fig. 4:, an enlarged view of the catch, and Fig. 5 an enlarged plan view of the catch.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A is the glass jar; B, the cover; 0, the coverholding wire which passes around the neck of the jar, having its ends twisted to fasten it thereto.

D is the upturned portion of the cover-holding wire, to which the cover B is hinged at b. a is a disk of paper employed as packing between the jar and cover.

The head of the jar has two enlargements to form double or two separate shoulders at a and c c, the lower shoulder being provided to keep the cover-holding wire 0 in a fixed vertical position and out of the way of the catch, and the upper shoulder to provide the means of holding the catch 1)" of the cover.

d d is a recess in the upper enlargement of the head of the jar, in which falls the upturned portion D of the cover-holding wire C.

e e is an annular depression or indentation in the cover to more or less stiffen it,

b b, Fig. 5, are two converging oblong indentations made from the under side of the stem of the catch to stiffen it. The catch 1), Fig. 4, is made quite large to facilitate the opening of the jar.

It will be observed that the cover consists of one piece of sheet metal, preferably steel,

and, in manufacturing it, it is first stamped out, leaving two sides of it (opposite to each other) protruding, one of which, being turned downward and bent around the horizontal portion of the upturned part D of the coverholding wire 0, forms the hinge d of the cover. The other protruding side is turned downward to form the catch b" of the cover. The cover could be formed of a round disk with a strip of metal fastened to the top of it, of which to form the hinge and catch; but I prefer to make the cover, hinge, and catch all in one piece of metal.

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a milk-jar, the double shoulders 0. a and c 0', extending around the neck of the jar, the former having the recess (Z d extending from the shoulder a a to the top of the jar, whereby the lower shoulder c c keeps the cover-holding wire in a fixed vertical position, and the recess d cl allows the hinge portion D of the cover-holding wire to hug closer to the neck of the jar, and the upper shoulder 0/ a, provides the means for holding the catch 1)", substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

LY MAN D. JONES.

Witnesses:

FRANK R. JOHNSON, JOSEPH SILVER. 

